Linux (disambiguation)

This is a disambiguation page for the term Linux.

Linux is:

• The common name of a Unix-like computer operating system.
  
• More specifically, Linux is just a kernel. The article that specifically covers this is at Linux (kernel)
  
• The "proper name" when referring to Linux as an operating system is GNU/Linux. This gives proper credit to the GNU project, which Linux as a distribution uses extensively (most of the tools such as gcc, which Linux is compiled with, are provided by the GNU project). There are literally hundreds of different distributions of Linux.